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    details are created with a brush‚ that doesn’t limit the figures to silhouettes. The scene depicted in the krater expressing movement and battle which is another advance and important aspect. The ability to create more detail and create these battle warriors with more of a naturalistic look (3). Form and emotion is growing more naturalistically in this period compared to the East and West Pediment of the Temple of Aphia as an example. This introduces the transition between the Archaic to the Classical

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    Introduction and History Ancient Greek culture spans over a thousand years‚ from the earliest civilizations to the cultures that became the Ancient Greeks. Key Points Before Greek culture took root in Greece‚ early civilizations thrived on the Greek mainland and the Aegean Islands. The two main cultures were the peaceful Minoans and warring Myceanaeans‚ who are distinguished by their unique architecture and material culture. Greek culture began to develop during the Geometric‚ Orientalizing‚

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    Module 3

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    Introduction SESSION CONTENT START "When you want to represent beautiful figures‚ since it is not easy to find everything without a flaw in a single human being‚ do you not then collect from a number what is beautiful in each‚ so that the whole body may appear beautiful?" -- Socrates The destruction of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations led to a decline in the knowledge of reading‚ writing‚ building‚ and art. This period is often called the Dark Ages of Greece. It was a time of poverty‚ depopulation

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    The Ideals of Human Bodies

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    wordpress.com/2007/08/30/laocoon-an-analysis/ http://www.sikyon.com/sicyon/Polykleitos/polycl_egpg1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polykleitos Appendix The Laocoon group. Marble. 1st century A.D. Venus de Milo Alexandros of Antioch 130-100 BC Bronzi di Riace 460–430 B

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    Greek Human Figure

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    Essay 2 Human’s figures were back to Greece art in eighth century. Archaic period was initiated with Daedalus‚ which lasted from 600 to 480BCE. Kouras is one of the earliest art of this period. This art has adopted Egyptian pose of standing figures. Beside this‚ there was Calf bearer; it was in Greece around CA 560BCE. It has a statue of man with beard bringing calf. Additionally‚ there was Prplos Kore‚ it is anavysos kouros in the statue of women. It is clothes in archaic statuary. The lady in the

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    Essay #1 The Palace of Knossos‚ a Minoan mud brick and timber structure on a shallow stone foundation‚ featuring a central courtyard‚ was constructed on an acropolis. It was a place for rulers to reside‚ shrines for religious ceremonies to be worshipped‚ the industrial production of objects‚ and administrative duties. Ample hallways‚ stairways‚ chambers‚ and light wells supplemented the ambitiously built structure. There were plenty of columns to mark he four awe inspiring entrance passages

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    Four Phases of Greek Art

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    4 Phases of Greek Art * Geometric 900-600 B.C.E * Archaic 600-480 B.C.E * Classical 980-323 B.C.E * Hellenistic 323-31 * Large funerary Vase * Known as Diphlon Vase or Krator * From the geometric era * Made from busted clay * Ceramics were used for storage * It also showed a lot of culture with images * The Greek buried their dead & practiced cremations Bronze Man & Centaur * Human body mixed with a horse like figure * Centaur from lefkand

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    Kritios Boy

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    One of my favorite pieces of art that we have studied so far is the statue Kritios Boy. I am very intrigued by the background history of this statue. It is believed to have been created by the sculptor Kritios hence the name of the statue. The Kritios Boy is one of the first statues to focus on how a person actually stands. The term for this is contrapposto. According to Google‚ Contrapposto is an Italian word meaning counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure with most

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    Calinaria Research Paper

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    The History and Sights of Calabria Calabria is a region in southern Italy‚ south of Naples located at the “toe” of the peninsula. The capital of the region is Cosenza. The region is bounded between Basilicata‚ the Tyrrhenian Sea‚ and the Ionian Sea. The region has a population of two million and that number is still rising. Calabria was first settled by Italic Oscan – speaking tribes. Two of these tribes consisted of Oenotri‚ or the “vine-cultivators” and the Itali. Greek contact with the latter

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    CHAPTER 5 SUMMARY PAGE

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    Summary Page for: CHAPTER 5 ART OF ANCIENT GREECE  Context: Cultural Belief System (religion) / History / Social / Political / Economic / Geographical Greek art influenced Western civilization to present / city states=democracy first evolved-also abstract reasoning‚ inquiry‚ philosophy‚ drama‚ poetry‚ & history / rugged mountainous terrain / Greeks felt themselves superior & called all other people "barbarians"/ After Persian army was repulsed Athenians established a democratic government headed

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